Best Social Activist of the Year
Celebrating a decade and a half of on-ground service.
190+National & regional honours
What a decade and a half looks like
The Foundation's own dated milestones — the same four lib/impact.js publishes.
2009The call is answered
A handful of volunteers begin in Jayanagar, Bengaluru.
2015Wheels take the work out
Education on Wheels and Health on Wheels carry classrooms and clinics into villages.
2020Relief at national scale
Pandemic and disaster response across states, alongside the standing programmes.
2024Twenty lakh reached
Across education, health and women's programmes, with 9 million trees in the ground.
What the service actually looked like
“The van came to our village every week. My daughter learned to use a computer before I ever saw one — she is the first in our family to finish school.”
A parentEducation on Wheels village
“I had put off the check-up for two years because the hospital is a day away. The camp found it early. I am still here because of that morning.”
A patientMobile medical camp
“The saplings they gave us were the same ones we used to cut for firewood. Now the whole ridge behind the village is green again, and the well hasn't gone dry in three summers.”
A farmerTree plantation drive
The reflection behind the recognition
“We never set out to build an organisation. We set out to answer a call — and the more people who answered with us, the further that call carried.”
Braja Kishore Pradhan, Founder & CEO — about/story
Other honours
2026Best NGO in India
National recognition as one of India's leading non-profits for sustained, community-led impact across education, health and the environment.
2026Best NGO of the Year
Honoured for high-impact CSR partnerships and measurable outcomes delivered across our programme areas.
National Excellence Award for Social Entrepreneur
For pioneering, entrepreneurial approaches to grassroots social change.
Best NGO Award for Environment
Recognition for our tree-plantation and green-cover work that has put over 70 lakh plants into the ground.
Young Social Activist
Early recognition of our founder's grassroots activism and community mobilisation in and around Bengaluru.